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“He is using his strength, his power and he is a top-class young striker.”

Rodgers also feels Dembele is no longer concerned by the muscular problems that forced him to sit out the successful conclusion to Celtic’s treble-winning season – in which he rattled in 32 goals – and affected him at the start of the current campaign.

Certainly the way he soared into the air to bullet home a header for the opener against Morton last weekend would suggest this is not a player worried about his hamstring going again. Rodgers added: “It’s never easy when you have those muscular injuries.

“The unfortunate thing, especially with dynamic and fast players, is that they can tend to have that issue.

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Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers believes in Moussa Dembele's ability

“Moussa had a few and you are always trying to monitor and watch it. But there are various reasons for that.

“He has worked very hard to get his fitness right and get his level of fitness and he looks much better.

“And it’s about coming to terms with so many games. He started the first part of last season and it was very good. The second part was unfortunate, he was injured for a lot of that period.

“He started this season a little bit like that, but it could be the second part of the season that he comes alive.”